The Sun. — London, England, 1810-06-07 00:00:00

MAILS. ARILIVZD-1 - Gottenburgh, z Waterford. DuE-1 Lisboi Dublin, t Waterford. PRICE .car• STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWILLVE O'CLOCK, Consols - - 71 I Omnium . If THE S U'N. SOLEM QUIS DICSRE FALSUM . A UDEAT ? .L . -0 ND O N. THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 18 W. lated to render it still more offensive in the eyes of the people, particularly as the unfortunate GuSTArns, whatever might be his errors, wai a high spirited , and gallant Monarch, anxious to support the ho 'nom- of his country against all the vulgar usurpa tions which bad brought mise,ry and disgracq upon other States. It is even said, that a counter-revolu tion has taken place in Sweden ; and, if so, it is much to be lamented that the late Monarch is of such a distance from his country, as be will probably be tome an easy viaim to his enemies, in order to pre vent him from profiting by the unexpected course o! events. Since the above was written, we understand that Ministers have receivectDispatches from Sir Jaws SAUMAREZ; mentioning the death of the Crown Prince of Sweden; so that the fa& is undoubted . It is not, however, suspeelcd, as we before stated, according to the general report, that this,e'vent was the effea of poison, but that he fell by a fit ,of apo plexy, ,as be was reviewing some troops, and die l d in an instant. We stated a day or two ago, 'that' Louts. BL'ONA rArre had been ordered to attend NAPOLEON at . . Antwerp ; and we understand that a report this day has arrived from Holland, stating _that he had abdi cated the throne of that Country. The _following Bulletin was issued this morning respeuing his. Royal. Highness the Duke of Cum- BERLAND His Royal Highness the Duke of CUMBIRLAND has passed another good night, and is going on as happily as pos— sible. 7ch June. " HENRY'HALFORD, " EVERARD HOME." Yesterday, at two o'clock, the KING heldi Pli vate Levee at the Queen's Palace. The following had the honour of being presented to his MAJESTY : Major-General Sir I. C. Sherbrooke, on being appointed a Knight of the Bath, and Colonel of the 68th Regiment ; also en his return from the army in. Portugal. The Marquis of Thomond, on being appointed a Knight of St. Patrick. The Rev. Dr. Charles Burney, on his appointintit to be one of his Majesty's Chaplains. ' - Major-General Cockburn, on his being appointed on the Stalin Sicily. Major-General Ferguson, to take leave on his setting ()fi fer Cadiz. Lientenant-Colenel Lygon, on his being appointed Lieu. tenant-Colonel-Connitadant of the South Worcester Local Militia, by his father, Lord 'Beauch lip. Lieut.. Colonel litydges Williams, of the Royal Cornwall kegiment. Captain 11. Ileatlitote, R.N. to take leave, previous to his embarkation for Persia. Major-General Frederick Maitland to sake leave, on his return to his Government Of Grenada. • Major Carey, of the loth Regiment, on his promotion, am) return to his re:tiritent on foreign service. Lieutenant Jervis, en his appointment to the aci Regiment of Life Guards. Lieutenant Llliutt, on his appointment to the pth Regt. Afterwards his Majesty held a"Council, at which the Recorder of London attended, and made his report of the convicts under sentence of death in N ewgale , when we understand two were ordered fur execution next Wednesday. His Majesty left the Palace, for Windsor about six o'clock. , Yesterday, about half--past twelve o'clock, her MAJESTY, and Princesses AUGUSTA, EbIZABETH, and SOPHIA, visited the'lluke of CUbIiIERLAND . , at . t Carlton House. After partaking of a collation with the Prince of WALES, they returned to the Queen's I Palace, and set off on their return to Windsor a little before three o' clock. The Common Council, it will be seen by our Re port, passed several more resolutions yesterday ; but . we , c.;tigratulate the City and the Country upon the majority in that assembly being reduced to six ; and had it not been tor the departure of some of the Al dermen before the 'division, And the unhandsome. I Conduct of some of the Commoners, the B ur d e t t / ie.; :'would actually have been left in a minority. Sir C. 'PRICE, Sir C. FLOWER, Sir ,/. PERRING, and Mr. Alderman- SCHOLEY, were present fur some time, but could not stay, to vote i ; two 'Commoners, who had paired off with two others, very unfairly. re turned and voted for the lietitio - u ; and two more, who spoke against. the propped measure, afterwards divided in favour of it, to the great astonishment of their friends. The new Comedy which is to be brought 'forward' this even gat Cqent7Parden :theatre is escribed to thevetem cusizgatt.Arip, the 402_~r of the rtio dern dram i, French Papers, to the Ist inst. and a Gotlenburgh Mail, arrived last night, at a late hour. The chief article of information which they bring, is an ac count of the sudden death of the CROWN PRINCE of SWEDEN. This event is publicly imppted to apo plexy, but is generally considered as the effe& of poison: He was on the road to Carlscrona from Stockholm, on horseback, but became so much in disposed on his journey, that he was obliged to stop at Helsingburg, where he fell from his horse, and expired _almost instantaneously. It is well known that the Revolution in Sweden was one of those violent measures of power Which are not san& ioned by popular opinion and desire, and the cruel procedure of setting aside the blood-royal of Sweden, was calcu- NAVAL NEWS PORTSMOUTH, Jti 6.—This morning the ~.9.6th Regiment of Foot marched into this town, acconi panied with their luggage, and 'were -immediately embarked on board transports in the harbour, wait ing for their reception. We understand they are going to Guernsey. His Majesty's ship Leda was this day appointed convoy, to the East ladies, and has directions to pro ceed to sea to-morrow- morning with the same, if the wind permits. _ _ . His M ajesty's ship Lively, it is expeled, wilt sail to-morrow morning, also, for the Mediterranean. Arrived the Elizabeth, GIGG, from Ski. derland. The ffilliam and Mary, GILPIN, and Betsey, CLARK, fur Sunderland; and the Union, FINCH, for Chepstow. Went out of harbour this day the Union, CLARK, for Quebec. PLYMOUTH, JUNE 5.--Carne down the Harbour and piled ,to the Westward his Majesty's ship Se rapis. Came down ,the harbour and anchored in the Sound his Majesty's brigs Savage and Podargus, the latter sailed last evening with a convoy to the East ward ; also sailed his Majesty's ship Rodney to the Westward. Arrived his Majesty's ship Plover from a cruize ; the Rose, DENNIS, from Guernsey, with a cargo Of flour for this Port ; the Bedruth, Deloxsg ; Sally and llilliarn, AYE ES j and Bolton, SANDERS, from Swansea; Friendship, PaTitartaatnGE, from Neath; and the John and !Pillions, HAMSON, from New haven. COMMON COUNCIL. At a Court of Common Council, held yesterday, the subject under consideration was the power as sumed by the H oese o f Commons " of imprisoning the people. of England for offences cognizable in Courts of Law, and to adopt such measuresas might be necessary for obtaining a redress of grievancea, and reforming the corrupt and inadequate Repre sentation of the •People in Parliament,' This bids jed has been so repeatedly canvassed in and out of Parliament, that " iespiration can hardly throw a new light on it," and therefore we are persuaded that our Readers will be satisfied with a brief report Of the proceedings. Mr. QUIN opened the business. He rejoiced at finding so full a Court, as the importance of the sub je& merited their mosi serious attention and gravest, consideration. It was not his intention to deny the House of Commons had privileges, but he meant to maintain that the House ought not to take upon it self to punish that which was cognizable by the laws of the land. He then vindicated the citizens from the charges preferred 'against them. They were not, as had b een sa id , unprincipled and disloyal:— they were not enemies - to the House of Commons. In the hour of danger they would be found ready to fight in its defence...Supporting the rights of the House of commons, they preserved that eqnipoiae and balance of the difThrent brandies of the-Legisla ture, from which all the blessings of our .happy Con stitution were derived. He denied that they were as closely united with Sir Franck Burdett as'/they bad been represented to be. He (Mr. -Quin) could not approve of some of the expressions contained in his letters. He would not go. at large into the ques tion of privilege, but he never could reconcile it to his mind as being just that one-third part-of the Legislature should have greater power than- the Whole. The Hous e o f C ommons -h ad privileges ; they enjoyed that of freedom of speech, and they bad that of 'committing .for contempt—but still be contended no precedents could be found to justify their recent condud. No right "could exist where no power existed to. enforce that right. How had the order of- the House been enforced ? Were the Officers of the•Hous'e sufficient to elle& the remo val of Sir Francis ? No; but then it might be said, if the House did not possess the power of calling into their aid ,a military force,,as - in the case of Sir Francis, what would be, the consequence, s h ou ld the -House of C ommons have to contend against the King ? That was _an extreme case, an d . h e would give a n extreme answer. In such a case, they would in every quarter find themselves sup ported by the great body of the,people. The BM of Rights set forth; that their proceedings should not be questioned out of doors, or made the subject of a process in any court Of law. A debating so ciety could not question their proceedings ; they had not the power of questioning. them in the manner meant by the , Act, as by questioning, a legal process was understood.— He then proceeded to speak of the necessity of a ' Reform in Parliament. To compass a Reform, the extension of the eleiiive franchise, the - destruc- tion- of rotten boroughs, and the shortening of the duration of Parliament, were necesaty.—On this aubjea, he thought, they were so far agreed, that he would'not consume their time, but by reading certain Resolutions to them, the subject matter of which he would propose to unbody in a Petition to the House. He then read a number of Resolu tions, complaining of the conduct of the House of Commons id imprisoning Sir F. Burdett and Mr. G. Tones' with a view of screening the authors of the Walcheren Expedition from disgrace; stating the burdens of the people to be unnecessarily. aggravated by the manner in which the taxes were colleded, avowing their concurrence with the sentiment ex pressed in the Address signed by the late _Duke of Portland and 31 other Peeh ; that times of necessity were times of Reform, giving it as Their opinion, that evils 'so manifold as those which they deplored w-ould not have been known, had the people been fairly- represented, and praying that The-House would take the subject into consideration, and give to the Wishes of the people a reform. Mr. PIERSON seconded the motion. Mr. WIIEBLE stated that very question to. have been brought forward 40 years ago in that Court, when no doubt existed as to the illegality of such Conduct on the part of the House of Corinnons. Mr. C. SMITH defended the co n d uct o f P ar li ament. The' House ofCOURRI ORS had proceeded in a similar manner against ,General Clavering and Captain San den, and to their conduct in those cases no objection had been trade. There would have been just cause for alarm if the House had not maintained its privileges, aod ,puriished those t:isi whom they were infringed. If the conduct of Members of Parlie; went were sutfered to be discussed in every pet house and debating society, where would be the bulwark of the Constitution?—Feeling this as ho did, be had thought it his duty. to lend a hand to pre serve the corner-stone of the superstructure, and save the foundation of the Constitution from being destroyed. Mr. JACKS wished to know if it could be wished that those privileges contended for by the House of Commons should be entrusted to the King or vested in the House of Lords ? This they could pot wish, as 'they might take them all to themselves.-- All _privileges depended on precedents and long-. established customs. The Law of Parliament, it had been stated. by Coke, enabled them to decide on questions which could not be decided by Com mon Law. . A similar opinion had been avowed by Blackstone. If Coke and Blackstone were worth attending to, the House of Commons, in imprisoning Sir Francis Burdett and Mr. Gale Jones, had not aced in opposition to ." Magna Charta." He then instanced the cases of Mr. Hall and Mr-. Noble,•the last a member, and the case of another individual, which he contended were parallel cases to those of Sir Francis Btirdett and Mr. G. Jones. He knew but little of the parties; fie knew Mr. Jones, but from an account given of him by a " Mr. Por cupine," who had characterised debating societies as sedulously disseminating the worst principles, and spoken of Mr. Jones in the most contemptu ous manner, as being a mad-brained' fellow, then out of prison on bail, brawling for toleration." After some remarks on the'association of Sir F. Burdett with the traitor Despard, and in. the opini on o f Lord Chatha m on t h e su bj ect of Parliamentary Re form, he observed that Sir F. Burdett had said a great deal about going back to the good times of the Constitution. In former times the City was much inore oppressed than they were at present. In France they had witnessed the effects of ;the doc trine 'Aid down on the. Rights of Man. If they proceeded, as was proposed, the land -marks of, the Constitution .would be annihilated, and then, w.h6re the evils thence arising - might terminate no one could say. He then spoke oft he evil effeas likely, to - arise from the extension of the eledive franchise, and asked if the present Membors of Westtninster were not the representatives of St. Giles's, Seven Dials, and other places where but lit tle property was to be represented. There neve r was a period i n t h e hi story o f this country, be main tained, at which more civil and religious liberty was enjoyed than at present. Could it then, at this pp-. fiod, be wise ,to set son against father, - and father against son in the 'cause of a speculative theory ? 'He was fiiendly to the shortening , - of the duration of Parliament, provided the riot and t) con fusion now at tentliug elections could be prevent e d. Th ough be was not averse to a moderate' Reform, be thought this was not a moment at which it would, be pro per to convulse the public mind by agitating the subject. Mr. SLADE supported the motion. A :Member, hose name we could' not learn, did not approl.e of the motion, on account of the in : flAtutwstory langtiage made tio.: of. }lad it been brought for .1 and in a more temperate way, he would haws peen hippy to give it his support: • • Mr. MAW MAN was perfectly satisfied that the late conduct of the House of CorninenS was consistent with the law of the land. in proof of this he cited a passage from Coke, proving the House had a right to commit for contempt. This being admitted, he would ask any man, if 'Sir Francis Burdett, speaking of the House of Commons as he did, ought not to have been committed to the Tower? He thought the public had a right to have a satisfactory explana- Con from Sir Francis, as to the motives which in flueoced him in resisting the Order of the House; through which so much evil had arisen. He cen sured the condoct of Sir Francis in endeavouring to bring the House into contempt, and concluded ex pressing his disapprobation of the conduct of Mini--; titers. Mr. LUCAS was friendly to Constitutional Reform; he would therefore move as an amendment, that all the „words of the original motion should be omitted after the word " that," for the purpose of insert ing words to the following effect, " That this Cow t, confident of the integrity of their Represen t tatives, are convinced that they will make every re ' trenchtnent in the expences of the State, that can be Made consistently with the safety of the country." Mr. WAITLINIAN thought Reform was never so • neceSsary.as at present, Air. Pitt and Mr. Fox had been in favour of a Reform, as had been Mr. Tier ney, though now he was so much against it. Mr. Tierney had drawn up an Addre!,s from, " the Friends of the People," and he had moreover been in favour of universal stiff age ; yet lately when the subject' was brought forward, lie had sneered at their wishes, saying, it you give them this, they will want . something else, and so on without end; such was the childish, ridictilous; . ' and .wicked line of conduct by him pursued. He (Mr. W.) then proceeded to speak of the necessity of a reform, descanted at length on the evils of the present.system, censured Ministers in strong terms, and concluded supporting the motion. Mr. FAVELL was most heartily in favour of the . motion. ,A Member objeaed to the amendment, but would vote against that part of the addresss censuring Mi nisters of the Crown. Mr. Quirt shortly replied, when the question was put. A division took•place. following Aldei men voted for the Petition, viz. Mr. Alderman Combe r Mr. A lderman Goodbchere. Mr. Alderman J. I. Smith l‘lr: Ald. and ShelitlWood. - Against the Petition : Sir William Curtis' . Mr. Alderman Hunter Sir John Earner , 11Ir. A !derma n' Christ. Smith *ir James,Shaw Mr. Alderman and Sheriti . Mr. Alderman Birch , Atkins' Sir M. Bloxam Mr. Alderman' Jacob. - . , , , 4 it RICIIIICII For the Petition . . . S 1 Commoners z Tellers. 87- • 9 A Idermen Agai:nst the Petition . . 7o Commoners 2 Tellers. • • ,`;1 Majority fur the Petition . 6 We are requested to contradi6t the statement,. that a .Mr. Trotter; of Cambridgeshire, applied to the Court of King's-Bench for au informatisu ugifiust the Mig strates of that County. .IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE' OF PEERS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6. , Mr. LUSRINGTON, Mr., KENR/CK, Sir .10FIX GRAHAM, and others, brought up froM the Cotn moos several Bills, among which were the Irish Militia, the Adjutants' Militia, the Militia Pay, the, Newfoundland Fishery, the Surveyor-General Re gulation, the Gas Lights Bill amended, and thit Thames Navigation Bills. THE CATHOLIC PETITIONS. The Earl of DONOUGHMORE rose, pursuant to, - notice, t o d raw t h e attention of their Lordships to ' the prayer of the Irish Catholics'.Petitions, many of which now lay on their Lordships' table. The sob.. je& which he had now to handle had already been so frequently agitated,' that he Wa s s e ns ibl e i t must have lost all the charm or novelty, and could not expeB to be attended to but by those who would b 3 disposed seriously to consider it in the light of its justice and 'policy. It had fallen to his lot, in manner wholly unexpeCted.by him, to be the per son who should submit the prayer of these Petitions to the consideration of their Lordships. He tho roughly felt how inadequate were his abilities to perform the . ardunfis task ; but 'as be was called up on by so numerous and respeCtable. e class of his fellow subjects to undertake . itia as a part of his peb lie duty, 'with that call he. deemed it,his duty to comply. He bed heard much of the objections that 'would be urged against his Motion ; but he.was at a loss to discover their force. In abe view which ha had taken of the question; he could discover no - Statute by which his Majesty's Catholic subjects were excluded from the enjoyment of. their civil rights. If he looked tq the 12th and lath of Wil harn, lehere it was supposed these disabilities were iinpoied on the Catholics, he • saw no ground- upon -- -which they were. to be excluded from those rights. .If he consulted the ACt of Settlement, or the Bill of Rights, he found nothing to'authorise this exclusion. - Ever since this- question came to be agitated in Par liament, from 1782 down to 1793, and from that time up to the present period, the prejudices which .preVailed against the Catholics were rapidly wearing away, and a .Spirit of a more enlightened wisdom and liberality began_ to b e enterta i ned in their favour. This was but -just. observation and expee rience had convinced him of the loyalty of his Ca aholie countrymen, and of their firm and - warm at tachment tohiS,Majesty's G overnment. He had to laMent, indeed, that Since the question was last under discussion ; some fresh objeetions and obsta cles had arisen; which puzzled the minds of some ,men, and indisposed, perhaps, the minds of others;. - but in' his• eyes, they had but litde weight ; acrd they might, nb doubt, be easily retiaoved. On this point, a letter had been written by..a Noble .Baron (Lord Grenville) whose absence on the present oc casion, and particularly the cause of it, he sincere ly regretted. To the claims of the Catholics, that • .distinguished Statesman had paid the most marked attention, and no person can base taken a more comprehensive and liberal view of the subje& than , • that Noble Lord has clone. His letter had indeed been misrepresented, oreanisitrterpreted by some,' and by others, but only by those.of a violent dispo sition,- it has been treated with dithecorning and un deserved asperity. This was n6t the refer. widh he was entitled to exec& for the Noble Baron still , retained the leading principles and sentiments which have uniformly guided his conduel in this respeal.— Among tire objections that are made to further con cession to the Catholics, the influence of the clergy over the 'laity of their communion, and of tfe hierarchy over the clerzy, have chiefly been insisted upon. , He never bad ally opportunity of observing, . that thiSinfluence, where it existed, was abused.--o, Re should be guilty of the basest ingratitude, in deed, if he d;cl not acknowledge that he himself, in the discharge of his public duty; had often felt. the beneficial etfeas of that influence. He had always. seen it exerted for the maintenance of the laws, and. the preservation of tranquility, of good orders; sometimes, indeed, he saw that it was exerted in vain." For those who imagined that the Catholics of Ireland now stood in such profound awe of their clergy, were irlistakeo. He was sorry to say they were; but it was now known and acknowledged. that this influence- was greatly on the decline. It should not therefore be held up as an objeetton of such magnitude. The other objections did not stand on a better ground. The Catholics had wholly abjured all idea of temporal power in the • Pope. They only considered. him as the spirimal head of their church : which they were bound to do: by the tenor of the Catholic faith. From that opi nion no inconvenience or danger could arise. We Should therefore consider the Irish Catholics only in the light of our l e - flow-subjects; otaeying the same Sovereign and the same laws; and as they were sub ject to the same restraints, candour and jostie° ShoOld incline us to acknowledge chat they were ASO , entitled to the same rights. Why then sho u ld the • twb Houses of Parliament be, shut against them ? Why should they be debarred from-aspiring to those situations of honour and trust vrltich are the rewards _ of talents, ind us t ry , an d integrity ? Instead of , curting any danger by granting what they now soli cit, in hii mind i t wo u ld be 'the means of gr eater security and strength. You would then have a pledge of their loyalty,' uniolf, and of their cordial co-operation in the common cause. On these grounds it was that the question sltould be considered, and on these grounds be should now beg leave to move, that the general. Petition of thelrish Rotnan Catho; lie Body, and the other Petition:l'i° the same from separate classes of the same persuasion, be re• (erred to a Committee of the Whole House. Lord CLANCARTY opposed the motion. Con cession had already gone a great way ; nothing scarcely had been omitted to conciliate the Catholics of Ireland. He said, indeed his Majesty's reign has been an uninterrupted course of concessions and conciliatory means to that part of his subjects, but conciliation supposed two 'dispositions—th a t on those who are desirous to conciliate; and that of those tO be conciliated—of his Majesty's disposition to conciliate there could be no doubt after-such re heated proofs had been given of it. It now remain ed to be seen whet - proofs of a reciprocal disposition would be given by the Catholics. The No )le Eat - I lies mentioned nothing on their readiness. O come forward with these proofs. L d ERSKINE, in an animated spe!ch, supports ,he motion. A paper was put in his.hand only